Conclusions from the Formula 1 2017 Season
Mercedes dominant performance
Despite tough competition at the start of the season from Ferrari, Mercedes did come out of the season looking very dominant especially in the second half of the season where both of their cars were a cut above the rest. Mercedes’ not only won the constructors’ Champion but their Drivers ended 1st and 3rd. In total Mercedes picked up 668 points, a whole 146 points ahead of Ferrari and more points than the bottom 6 teams achieved when combined together! Not only this but Mercedes-AMG had more pole positions & more fastest laps than any other team and even set a fastest pit-stop record! Mercedes won a total of 11 out of the 20 races with Lewis Hamilton picking up 9 of these and Valtteri Bottas getting 2. The constructors championship was decided with many games still remaining in the season due to Mercedes dominance. Although many argue that due to the money involved that the F1 field is anything but even it is clear to everyone that under the current rules and regulations that Mercedes are the team to beat! You can view the full F1 Constructors Championship Standings below:
Hamilton is an F1 legend
This victory for Hamilton marks his fourth F1 drivers world title win and even his critics need to admit that he is now one of Formula 1’s greatest ever drivers. Although Hamltion did end the season very dominantly he did not start it that way, and towards the middle of the F1 Season it was looking like Sebastian Vettel could beat him to the title. But with Hamilton being extremely cool under pressure and a combination of Ferrari’s reliability problems & Vettel at times letting the pressure get to him like in Singapore, this allowed Hamilton to cruise comfortably to a title win by an impressive 46 points. This season-long battle vs. Vettel was the first time these two had a wheel-to-wheel battle for the F1 championship despite both being the best drivers of the past decade. Their battle was most evident in Baku where the two battled for the entire race until Hamilton forced a mistake on Vettel which Vettel could not recover the time from!
At just 32 years old he has won 4 titles putting him equal on F1 Championships with his rival Sebastian Vettel & the great Alain Prost. There are just two drivers above him in terms of the number of F1 Championships they have won who are Juan Manuel Fangio with 5 & Michael Schumacher with 7! Hamilton’s other world championships came in 2008, 2014 & 2015 and he narrowly missed out on a title in 2016 which was eventually won by his teammate Nico Rosberg, Hamilton’s recent form is nothing but dominant and he is definitely the favourite to win the title next season too, at just 32 he is able to potentially equal Michael Schumachers 7 world championships and pass him becoming the F1 driver with the most world titles since the competition began all the way back in 1950!
Check out the final Formula 1 Driver Standings for the 2017 season below:
